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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

So, maybe here's a golden opportunity for someone with some land to go into 
business and become a compost farm.  Collect all the stuff you list, contact 
local ranches for what they take out of the barns and then do massive rows 
of compost that you could ultimately load into a belly dump to cart to the 
farms.  Contract with even one big corporate farm and you'd more than make 
enough money to make it worth your while.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> I don't suggest a remedy for it.  I don't see one, only that we can
> recognize, and bring up when it is apropos, that home grown food on 
> composted soils is
> not going to be the same thing as the organic section of Wal-Mart.
>
> Yes, that's the only way in a sort of absolute sense.  But in areas where 
> we
> haven't crowded ourselves to distraction, there are other sources of 
> organic
> material that can make up for the 'night soil'  and other losses.   For
> example, here there are abundant forests.  "Robbing" a bit of organic 
> material here
> and there, leaf mold, rotted stumps, pine needles, creek silt, etc, 
> doesn't do
> the forest overall much harm but greatly increases the fertility of our 
> modest
> plots.  Also there are tree trimmings from the power company, grass
> clippings, municipal leaf collections, seaweed (not here, but some 
> places), old hay,
> corn stover, and such.